THE Muhammadu Buhari government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, have turned the five-month stay at home by our public university students to a game of hide and seek. Hope has further dimmed on the possibility of the reopening of our universities for academic activities.

After prolonged verbal warnings, ASUU finally embarked on a one-month warning strike on February 16, 2022. When the Federal Government failed to respond, the Union extended its warning strike for two months before declaring the current indefinite strike.

Rather than a meaningful engagement with the Union to resolve the impasse, the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige, and his counterpart, now former Minister of State for Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, come up with N100 million each to buy the All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential nomination forms.

These were ministers who should have resigned or been fired long ago for their failures to find solutions to the ASUU strike under their watches. They added salt to the injury of the masses by deigning to engage in runs for their party’s presidential ticket.

Buhari had, in his “enough is enough” call on ASUU to go back to work in Daura during the recent Sallah holidays, told the Union that its strike would have “generational consequences” on families, the educational system and the future development of the country.

This statement was obviously meant to shift the moral burden of the ASUU strike to the university lecturers. Last time we checked, it was President Buhari and his All Progressives Congress, APC, that were given the mandate to solve this problem, among others.

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